Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin announced that the government has extended the simplified procedures for registration and import of medicines into Russia until the end of 2024. DEA News.
He emphasized that many supply chains have been disrupted due to the restrictions placed on Russia and that the government has decided to extend a series of simplified procedures until the end of next year so that drug manufacturers can bring them to the domestic market faster. .
First of all, we are talking about the registration of analogues of drugs presented in Russia and obtaining permission to import original drugs with inscriptions on the packages in foreign languages, which after sale will need to be translated into Russian.
Mishustin emphasized that this will enable people to reach the medicines they need.
To market drugs imported from abroad or produced in Russia, state registration is required. A simplified procedure will allow you to receive all the necessary documents for this in the shortest possible time.
State Duma in 2022 accepted a law allowing the importation of foreign drugs into Russia in foreign packages. Also, according to the law, foreign manufacturers are prohibited from stopping the production and import of drugs into Russia without at least six months’ notice to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.